 | 1854 - 412 pages
...the Cross Timbers, extending from the Arkansas river in a southwesterly direction to the Brazos -r- some 500 miles. On the eastern side of this belt is...teeming with vegetation, here and there interspersed witli verdant glades and small prairies, and affording inexhaustible grazing and the most beautiful... | |
 | 1853 - 844 pages
...anomalous features that presents itself is a narrow strip of woodland, from five to thirty miles wide, called the Cross Timbers, extending from the Arkansas...in a southwesterly direction, to the Brazos, some five hundred miles. This belt divides the arable lands from the great prairies, which, for the most... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1853 - 480 pages
...and anomalous features upon the face of the country, is from five to thirty miles wide, and extends from the Arkansas river in a southwesterly direction to the Brazos, some four hundred miles. At six different points where I have passed through it, I have found it characterized... | |
 | 1854 - 438 pages
...which had been nauseating and bitter, became cool, clear, and free from salts. This was an unlocked for luxury, and after indulging freely in the delicious...most beautiful natural meadows that can be imagined. To the westward commence those barren and desolate wastes, where but few and unimportant streams greet... | |
 | 1854 - 414 pages
...the most striking features of this region was a small strip of woodland, from 5 to 30 miles in widthi called the Cross Timbers, extending from the Arkansas...most beautiful natural meadows that can be imagined. To the westward commence those barren and desolate wastes, where but few and unimportant streams greet... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1854 - 818 pages
...and anomalous features upon the face of the country, is from five to thirty miles wide, and extends from the Arkansas river in a southwesterly direction to the Brazos, some four hundred miles." Our route for about sixty miles, following the delightful valleys of Walnut and... | |
 | United States. War Department, Randolph Barnes Marcy - 1854 - 470 pages
...and anomalous features upon the face of the country, is from five to thirty miles wide, and extends from the Arkansas river in a southwesterly direction to the Brazos, some four hundred miles. At six different points where I have passed through it, I have found it characterized... | |
 | 1856 - 38 pages
...and anomalous features upon the face of the country, is from five to thirty miles wide, and extends from, the Arkansas river in a southwesterly direction to the Brazos, some four hundred miles/ 7 Our route for about sixty miles, following the delightful valleys of Walnut and... | |
 | Thomas M. Bonnicksen - 2000 - 614 pages
...and anomalous features upon the face of the country, is from five to thirty miles wide, and extends from the Arkansas river in a southwesterly direction to the Brazos, some four hundred miles. ... the trees, consisting principally of post-oak and black-jack [oak], standing... | |
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This extensive belt of woodland, which forms one of the most prominent and anomalous features upon the face of the country, is from five to thirty miles wide, and extends from the Arkansas river in a southwesterly direction to the Brazos, some four hundred... 